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	Desert Solitaire Journal of Leisure Research - Find Articles
		In Desert Solitaire, he took his first and most serious public aim at those destructive forces at work in the environment.
		Desert Solitaire defined Abbey's voice- a distinctive mix of fine narrative and blunt, radical opinion and accusation.
		Since you cannot get the desert into a book any more than a fisherman can haul up the sea with his nets, I have tried to create a world of words in which the desert figures more as a medium than as a material.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3702/is_200310/ai_n9322942 (853 words)

	Desert Solitaire
		In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Desert Solitaire, the University of Arizona Press is pleased to make the book available once again in a hardcover edition, featuring a new introduction by the author, his definitive corrections to the text, and eighteen illustrations commissioned exclusively for this volume.
		Desert Solitaire lives on because it is a work that reflects profound love of nature and a bitter abhorrence of all that would desecrate it.
		Desert solitaire : a season in the wilderness / by Edward Abbey ; drawings
	www.abbeyweb.net /books/ea/desert_solitaire.html (462 words)

	ALN No. 35: Excerpt: Edward Abbey
		Desert Solitaire, drawn largely from the pages of a multi-volume journal the author began in 1956 and kept over several seasons as a ranger in Arches National Monument (now a national park), was published "on a dark night in the dead of winter" in 1968.
		As the land rises the vegetation becomes richer, for the desert almost luxuriant: junipers appear, first as isolated individuals and then in stands, pinyon pines loaded with cones and vivid colonies of sunflowers, chamisa, golden beeweed, scarlet penstemon, skyrocket gilia (as we near 7000 feet), purple asters and a kind of yellow flax.
		Like certain aspects of this music, the desert is also a-tonal, cruel, clear, inhuman, neither romantic nor classical, motionless and emotionless, at one and the same time - another paradox - both agonized and deeply still.
	ag.arizona.edu /OALS/ALN/aln35/Abbey.html (2571 words)

	Powell's Books - Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult.
		"[Desert Solitaire] is the outgrowth of a bitter awareness of all that has been lost, all that is being lost, all that is going to be lost in that glory of our American democracy, our system of national parks.
		Desert Solitaire is Edward Abbey's description his of time as a park ranger at Arches National Park.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0671695886-4 (558 words)

	Amazon.ca: Desert Solitaire: Books: Edward Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Desert Solitaire is a meditation on the stark landscapes of the red-rock West, a passionate vote for wilderness, and a howling lament for the commercialization of the American outback.
		I did like his wide knowledge of philosophy and the desert fauna and flora, and I relate to his love of the desert, but his prose is a bit(forgive the pun) too arid, and I had to slog through parts of the book.
		But perhaps the most moving aspect of Desert Solitaire (indeed, all of Abbey's writing) is that the reader, by associating himself with the book, is called to action.
	www.amazon.ca /Desert-Solitaire-Edward-Abbey/dp/0345326490 (1304 words)

	Wisdom of the Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I am here [in the desert] not only to evade for a while the clamor and filth and confusion of the cultural apparatus but also to confront, immediately and directly if it’s possible, the bare bones of existence, the elemental and fundamental, the bedrock which sustains us.
		the most beautiful individual flower [in the desert], most people would agree, is that of the cacti: the prickly pear, the hedgehog, the fishhook.
		The cactus of the high desert is a small, grubby, obscure and humble vegetable associated with cattle dung and overgrazing, interesting only when you tangle with it in the wrong way.
	www.desertfound.org /Abbey.html (293 words)

	Desert Solitaire homework, ENH4-6.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Appreciate the variety of plants, some of their adaptations to the desert, and their utility to animals and people.
		Appreciate the impact of commercial mining, especially for uranium, on the social fabric and the economy of small, rural desert communities such as Moab.
		Be sure to avoid quotes and use your own words to express how Abbey would argue for his particular notion of what a park should be like in terms of where our priorities should be in the "developer" vs "preserver" debate.
	www.gis.net /~rwbirch/Ecology/enh4-6.html (348 words)

	Solitaire Guest Farm
		The entrance to Solitaire Guest Farm farm is only 500m from the Solitaire gas station.
		The Solitaire Guest Farm is situated around 85km north of Sesriem, the entrance to the dunes at Sossusvlei.
		Solitaire Guest Farm is situated 6km east of Solitaire on the C19 road.
	www.namibian.org /travel/lodging/private/solitaire_guest_house.html (253 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Desert Solitaire: Books: Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Desert Solitaire is something special, though possibly a book with a limited audience made of people who have travelled the Southwest and taken it to their souls.
		It is a sort of diary of the period Abbey spent as a park ranger in the Arches National Park in Utah.
		Desert Solitaire is little short of a masterpiece.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Desert-Solitaire-Abbey/dp/0671695886 (1059 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		That book is Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, an autobiographical account of the author's time spent as a ranger at Arches National Monument in Utah which is by turns poetic, philosophical, and polemical.
		And, despite his claim in the introduction to Desert Solitaire that "serious associate professors of English literature will if they read this work dislike it intensely," he is a well known and highly respected writer among scholars who study nature writing or Western American literature.
		I would characterize Desert Solitaire as a work of literary environmental advocacy in which Abbey exhorts us, his readers, to DO SOMETHING at the same time as he laments the likely destruction of the wild desert landscape that he loves.
	www.english.ilstu.edu /hesse/bradway/abbey1.html (4841 words)

	Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Abbey's was an attempt to preserve the memory of a beautiful desert landscape onto the pages of a book.
		The desert, in its minimalism, its reservation toward gaudy decoration, forces inhabitants to appreciate every little pebble, every coyote, every warm blooded rodent brave enough to try and survive its climate, and every reptile that adores that climate.
		A small town in that brutal desert environment, needed to be interdependent, was forced to work together, and any who didn't conform to that absolutely had to be dealt with for the preservation of the entire town.
	pages.prodigy.net /nyn/entries/books/desertsol.html (759 words)

	Amazon.com: Desert Solitaire: Books: Edward Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I appreciate his desert and his writing; even if you are not an environmentalist nor a lover of the desert, you may see why people are if you read this.
		In edition to his desert experiences he also speaks to those issues tangentially related to the wilderness such as the policy decisions of the Park's Department, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other such issues.
		A poet when describing the wonders of the desert and the joys of solitude; then he becomes a strident critic of his fellow man if they have the audacity to disagree with him.
	www.amazon.com /Desert-Solitaire-Edward-Abbey/dp/0345326490 (1783 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness was written by National Park Ranger Edward Abbey and published in 1969 by Ballantine Books, New York.
		Moreover, Abbey interprets the significance of water and geography in the austere environment and connects these subjects to desert life forms.
		I have a unique perspective on Desert Solitaire having worked for the National Park Service for almost a decade, including a season in the Utah desert.
	members.tripod.com /~fclark/desert_sol.htm (2785 words)

	Amazon.com: Desert Solitaire: Music: Steve Roach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		If the desert were a siren, these would be her songs.
		Just as in the desert, water is scarce on this album - the only hint of moisture is a tingling that we hear while watching the "Cloud of Promise" (track 5) approach and grow from the horizon.
		If you've always been lured by the desert, here is some inspiring ambient soundscapes to listen to as you fantasize about your journey out west.
	www.amazon.com /Desert-Solitaire-Steve-Roach/dp/B0000007UV (1098 words)

	Gruppenaktivitäten von Eilat aus- Jeeptouren 4x4, Kamel- und Wanderreisen in Israel, Eilat, Negevwüste und ...
		Desert Eco Tours provides tours and activities for groups of all sizes.
		The wide range of tours and group activities available are based on years of experience.
		Desert Eco Tours- Deutscher Büro : Zofit center, Eilat Israel.
	www.desertecotours.com /german/negev_groups.asp (511 words)

	IR // News // Desert Solitaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There is something special about the Southwest desert and its wildlife that call me back as time and money allow.
		I have to admit that first night alone in the tent in the middle of nowhere was a little unnerving, but with daylight and the calls of the camp covey moving out to feed, my uneasiness faded like the cold with the rising sun.
		As for other wildlife, I saw two herds of javelina, a couple of desert mule deer, beaucoup jack rabbits and cottontails, and maybe a dozen road runners.
	www.helenair.com /articles/2006/03/02/outdoors/c02030206_01.txt (1201 words)

	Robinson Jeffers Forums - Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire
		As far as I know, Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire is such a nice book to read.
		But now that I do, I realize Desert Solitaire is like much of Jeffers' work in another way: the landscape can't exist for the reader without going through a strongly developed narrator.
		At times the character of this narrator is difficult, intense, or even objectionable (in the case of Abbey), but the reader has to get close---very close---to him to get the story.
	www.jeffers.org /forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7 (202 words)

	Desert Solitaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms.
		Rather than choose a pond or arctic tundra for a journey lasting a year, however, Abbey's stomping grounds are the desert and its immediate surroundings, and his account isn't for an entire year.
		The stories aren't all completely desert related either as one adventure deals with the mountains and at least a couple other (including the longest and best IMO) involve canyon and river life.
	www.2think.org /desertsolitaire.shtml (813 words)

	Edward Abbey - DesertUSA
		Abbey first came to the Southwest when he was 17, during the summer of 1944, between his junior and senior years in high school.
		Some of his fiction titles include The Brave Cowboy (1956), (the basis for the western movie Lonely Are the Brave, which starred Kirk Douglas as Abbey's recurrent character Jack Burns), Fire on the Mountain (1962), Black Sun (1971), The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), Good News (1980), The Fool's Progress (1988), and Hayduke Lives (1989).
		Nonfiction titles include Desert Solitaire (1968), Down the River (1982), Beyond the Wall (1984) and One Life at a Time, Please (1988).
	www.desertusa.com /mag00/nov/papr/abbey.html (1301 words)

	Virgo Moon - One-of-a-kind handmade jewelry and accessories/Desert Solitaire Necklace and Earrings
		The large centerpiece cabochon is cut to frame the desert view and is beautifully polished.
		Irregular chunks of dendritic (common) opal pick up the colors of the Chinese picture rock and their substantial size supports the composition.
		Warning: purchase of this necklace may induce you to visit one of our beautiful deserts to enjoy the "ocean with its life underground" with its brilliant stars.
	www.virgomoon.com /html05/desert_solitaire.html (127 words)

	Desert Solitaire (a book) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I just finished reading Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey, written in 1968.
		Turning Plato and Hegel on their heads, I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real.
		The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp.
	www.exmormon.org /boards/honestboard/messages/530.html (370 words)

	City Pages - Desert Solitaire
		A bleak and beautiful drama about a pair of pretty boys (Matt Damon and Casey Affleck) who wander lost in the desert without food and water, Gus Van Sant's Gerry marks a triumphant return to form for a director whose recent round of goodwill hunting in Hollywood appears on hold.
		I know that [Robert] Redford--he came to the screening at Sundance--said that he had been lost in Palm Springs, in the desert, and he didn't think he was going to make it.
		The outlines of the characters' bodies seem to be quivering from the combination of heat and wind.
	www.citypages.com /databank/24/1159/article11069.asp (5700 words)

	excerpt from Desert Solitaire: Into the Maze
		Around us the Green River Desert rolls away to the north, south and east, an absolutely treeless plain, not even a juniper in sight, nothing but sand, flbrush, prickly pear, a few sunflowers.
		Like certain aspects of this music, the desert is also a-tonal, cruel, clear, inhuman, neither romantic nor classical, motionless and emotionless, at one and the same time - another paradox - both agonized and deeply still.
		Consider Abbey's Web for a few thoughts from the late Edward Abbey; a desert philosopher and one of America's few great writers.
	www.psnw.com /~bashford/desert.html (2623 words)

	Bookshop owner's reads help him brave hot temps \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Edward Abbey's "Desert Solitaire," said Pepe, "totally makes you appreciate everything around you in the desert.
		His passion for the desert is palpable in his prose.
		"He has great descriptions of the desert, and his relationship with the plants and animals of the desert," Pepe said.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/78683 (657 words)

	Desert Solitaire
		"The Southwest desert is inviting and intoxicatingly beautiful," said Roach, "but it is also dangerous and frightening.
		We wanted to capture the desert's timeless beauty, and we also wanted to create in sound the more visceral emotional experience of actually being there.
		The music contains some lovely desert imagery, but it also contains some of the desert's ominous, potentially lethal undertones.
	www.harmonies.com /releases/17070.htm (171 words)

	Desert Solitaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This passage is taken from a book by Edward Abbey (1927-1989): Desert Solitaire (published by Ballantine Books, New York, ISBN 0-345-32649-0).
		If you are drawn to this passage, I recommend his novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang as the first book to read.
		It's a strange, stirring, but not uncommon thing to come on a pool at night, after an evening of thunder and lightning and a bit of rainfall, and see the frogs clinging to the edge of their impermanent pond, bodies immersed in water but heads out, all croaking away in tricky counterpoint.
	www.msu.edu /~bruce/abbey1.htm (360 words)

	Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire. By Jonathan Corbin
		Canyonlands National Park, Utah, is the geographical starting point of Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire.
		In the introduction of Desert Solitaire his love of this work is easy to see: "Those were all good times, especially the
		The majority of the essays within Desert Solitaire are elaborations of his experiences while employed as a ranger in the
	www.bluffton.edu /~gundyj/Exposreviews/Jonathan.htm (1259 words)

	Rostock Ritz Desert Lodge - Lodge in Solitaire, Namib Desert, Namib Region, Namibia
		Rostock Ritz Desert Lodge - Lodge in Solitaire, Namib Desert, Namib Region, Namibia
		REQUEST A QUOTE from Lara at Rostock Ritz Desert Lodge.
		The Rostock Desert Lodge (Rostock Ritz), your in-between stop in the desert, consists of a combination of igloo shaped bungalows, aesthetically integrated into the natural surroundings.
	www.safarinow.com /go/RostockRitzDesertLodge/?skin=222 (389 words)

	adventure journalist : the notebook: Book Review: "Desert Solitaire" by Edward Abbey
		Even then, evidence of the decay brought about by industrial tourism, a concept Abbey blasts and fights throughout his career as a writer of the west, was painfully evident, and he aptly dubs the book, while in part a story of adventure and personal discovery, "not a travel guide, but a eulogy".
		"The season is late -- late summer on the high desert.
		The nighthawks, sparse in numbers earlier, have gone away completely.
	www.adventurejournalist.com /notebook/archives/002561.html (466 words)

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		Some how all the energy and connections made between the sproggers might have fizzled....but there's still time.
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